CLEVELAND, Ohio -- On this Memorial Day weekend we remember those soldiers who died on the battlefield and in the waiting rooms of VA medical facilities.

This past week, a month after news broke about veterans dying while waiting for care, President Obama finally addressed the scandal at a press conference, after meeting with Veterans Affairs Secretary, Eric Shinseki.

Obama made it clear that both he and Shinseki are "Mad as Hell" and will hold people accountable -- just you wait!-- until sometime after the IG and Obama's point-man are done investigating and can confirm there's actually fire as well as smoke in hell.

"I don't yet know how systemic this is", said the President about the VA deaths and the doctoring of records. Maybe he's just waiting to hear the news from MSNBC. The administration and Shinseki have known about the delay problems at the VA for at least five years. Past cases of false reporting and mismanagement have already been investigated and documented.

Obama's point man, Rob Nabors, arrived in Phoenix late last week to interview workers at the VA facility that is the epicenter of the scandal. I'd like to ask the managers how they can go into work everyday and see injuries vets sustained fighting for them, and then engage in false reporting on wait lists and times to protect their performance bonuses? Vets were brave only to be put in the care of the morally depraved.

Thanks, to all those who gave their life so I could have the freedom to voice my opinion in in picture and word. Thanks, to all vets who have served this country preserving our liberty to spend this weekend however we wish.

War is Hell, VA wait times shouldn't be. The Commander in Chief needs a bugle call in his ear to wake him up to the fact that he's still on "active duty", which you wouldn't know given his delayed response to this latest VA scandal.

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